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Pinterest Changes User Terms So It Can Train AI on User Data and Photos, Regardless of When They Were Posted

Futurism

Pinterest has updated itsprivacy policy to reflect its use of platform user data and images to train AItools. The company reiterated the latter claim in a new section about AI in its Help Center, which appears to have been published in tandem with new policy update. It should've been the user's choice to check that, not theirs."

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Apple will use its street view Maps photos to train AI models

Engadget

The company's Apple Maps image collection policy page provides a list of regions and dates when it plans to collect new images for Look Around. There's also Clean Up in Photos, which you can use to remove objects from your favorite snapshots. Apple currently offers a few different features that rely on image generation models.

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Technology policies and practices to leave behind in 2025

Candid

Here are four technology policies and practices nonprofits and foundations of any size or mission area should leave behind in 2025: 1. Stop creating product-specific technology policies Just as accessibility covers many different systems, interventions, accommodations, and needs, so too should your organizations policies.

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Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage on June 1st, 2021

The Verge

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge. After five years of offering unlimited free photo backups at “high quality,” Google Photos will start charging for storage once more than 15 gigs on the account have been used. Only photos uploaded after June 1st will begin counting against the cap.

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Square announces permanent work-from-home policy

The Verge

Photo by Paul Jeffers/Fairfax Media via Getty Images via Getty Images. The indefinite extension of the company’s remote work policy echoes a similar announcement from Twitter last week. The new policy will apply to teams that are able to do their jobs remotely. Dorsey is CEO of both companies. “We

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How nonprofits can engage in policy advocacy now 

Candid

Discussing budgets and policy was uncomfortable for the partner—and not something her nonprofit typically does. Despite working in diverse geographies and issue areas—from environmental justice to workforce development, arts education to grief support—these nonprofits share similar concerns about the risk of engaging in policy advocacy.

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How to choose a photo storage service

The Verge

Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge. Back in 2019, photo storage service Flickr changed its previous policy of offering 1TB of free storage to its users, limiting free storage to 1,000 photos instead. As a result, we published a roundup of photo services that our readers might want to check out instead. Google Photos.

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